List of kings of Lydia

This lemma lists the kings of the ancient kingdom of Lydia (also called Mäonien ) in what is now western Anatolia (Asia Minor). Historical sources report of three dynasties, of which the first complete and at least the beginning of the second in the field of myths comes from. From the eighth century BC, there exist evidence of the rulers of this dynasty, as well as over the following.

Atyaden

Depending on the source also called Tantaliden.

The BC living in the fifth century in the southwest of Asia Minor Greek historian Herodotus names in the first book of his Histories Manes and his son Atys (Latin Atyllus ) as the first kings of Mäonien.

Other sources such as the historian Xanthos ( at the same time living in Lydia ) and Strabo ( the time of Christ in the north of Asia Minor dead), rename Tmolos and his son Tantalus as kings of Lydia same time period.

The connecting link is Omphale, which is called in both sources, therefore stands to reason that it is the same people, in the foregoing.

Heracleidae

After Heracles lydischem slave name " Tylos " also called Tyloniden.

After Agamemnon has stolen the throne and Clytemnestra, according to Herodotus begins with his cousin Agron a new dynasty in the new capital of Sardis.

Agron was the myth, a descendant from the second marriage of Omphale with Heracles, whose son Alcaeus was the father of Belus, which in turn father of Ninus, the legendary king of Assyria.

Mermnadae

Came to the throne by force justified Gyges the brief but powerful dynasty of Mermnadae, under the first Lydia comes to the climax of his power in Asia Minor and is broken after the defeat of Croesus against the Persian king Cyrus II.

Although historically occupied, there are doubts about the accuracy of the data received by tradition from Herodotus. Modern studies provide based on the Assyrian history discordant data.